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Marguerite Blakeney ([personal profile] renegadeheart) wrote2011-01-08 02:04 pm

Timeline

Historical dates from Wikipedia: Timeline of the French Revolution

1767 Marguerite St Just is born

1775 Start of the American War for Independence

1778 France declares war against Great Britain in support of the American Colonies.

1783 Treaty of Paris and the end of the American War for Independence

1785 Marguerite's début in Paris

1786 The French Financial Crisis hits and the Assembly of Notables convoked.

1787 Armand St Just is nearly killed on the orders of the Marquis St Cyr

1789 July 14 The Storming of the Bastille.

       July 15 LaFayette appointed commander of the National Guard

       August 26 The Assembly adopts The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
     
       October 4 First meeting of Lord Percy Blakeney and Marguerite St Just

       October 5 Womens March on Versailles

1791 February 28 The Day of Daggers

       The Marquis St Cyr is arrested
  
        September The beginning of the courtship between Lord Percy Blakeney and Marguerite St Just
 
        November Marguerite marries Lord Percy and retires from the Parisian Stage

1792
March 20 Adoption of the guillotine as official method of executions.

       April 20 France declares war on Austria
   
       July First public mention of la Mouron Rouge

       August 13 Louis XVI is taken into custody

       August 19 LaFayette flees to Austria

      September 2-7 The September Massacres

      September The Duchess, Viscomte and Mlle de Tournay are rescued by the Scarlet Pimpernel; Armand St Just is arrested.
     
      October Armand St Just and the Marquis du Tournay are rescued  (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

1793 August Paul Deroulede and Juliett Marney are tried for treason (I Will Repay)